[Reader-list] "Amaresh Mishra’s web of lies" - the Teesta Setalvad letter

[Pawan Durani]

Dear Shuddha ,

While i too find Amaresh Mishra's arguments weird , but I still
believe that all we know about Headley is that he has been a US agent
.

I see no reason why US has been reluctant to let India quiz him ?
Hasn't US demanded and got their terror suspects from Pakistan ? Why
double standards ?

So far it seems that there is something US wants to hide.

Pawan

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Shuddhabrata Sengupta
<shuddha at sarai.net> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I would also caution everyone about the contents of Amaresh Mishra's
> communiques with the world. The Headley angle is disturbing, no
> doubt, but Mishra does us all a disservice by cooking the wildest of
> conspiracy theories. Especially those who do not buy the standard
> line on these matters should be careful not to tarnish their own
> arguments with wild, and unfounded speculation
>
> best
>
> Shuddha
>
> On 04-Apr-10, at 4:53 PM, Kshmendra Kaul wrote:
>
>> Javed Masoo posted the article by Amaresh Misra "Headley Saga:
>> Mumbai attack was a joint IB-CIA-Mossad-RSS project"
>>
>> Amaresh Misra is well known for his conspiracy theories and only
>> when someone is intent on suggesting some credibility to his
>> lunacies, a bio-bit about his being a "famed"/"eminent" historian
>> is inserted.
>>
>> A variation on the Amaresh Misra conpiracy theory on the Mumbai
>> Attack suggests that it is actually the nexus of CIA-Mossad-RSS
>> that controls/finances/directs the terror-agenda of IB/RAW (of
>> India) and ISI (of Pakistan). Yes ISI of Pakistan included.
>>
>> In the Dec 2008 letter of Teesta Setalvad, she had this to say
>> about Amaresh Misra:
>> http://communalism.blogspot.com/2008/12/amaresh-mishras-web-of-
>> lies.html
>>
>> - .... MR AMARESH MISHRA, a dangerous individual .....
>>
>> - ...... the conspiracy theories spouted by Mr Mishra in print and
>> on the internet that are not just too incerdible but have also,
>> surprisingly escaped the wrath of the sangh parivar.
>>
>>
>> "Communalism Watch" also offers weblink for the article "Amaresh
>> Mishra -a case of intellectual rottenness" posted by one "gurmeet"
>>
>> That article has this to offer about Amaresh Misra:
>> http://libertynewscentral.blogspot.com/2008/12/amaresh-mishra-case-
>> of-intellectual.html
>>
>> - I did not know very much about Amaresh Mishra but that he had
>> written a book that appeared to be of dubious merit and dodgy
>> scholarship.
>>
>> - Now it seems that that dodginess runs deep indeed -deep into the
>> dark recesses of conspiracy theories. He suffers from the same
>> strain of kookiness that Union Minority Affairs Minister A R
>> Antulay does.
>>
>> - He belongs to that overflowing breed of intellectual/media/pundit/
>> academic class that sees Mossad and CIA (or America and Israel) as
>> the fountainhead of most evil in the world.Kookiness is not an
>> aberration in this circle but a feature.
>>
>> - Aren't we told that Amaresh Mishra is a renowned historian? I am
>> glad we were enlightened or we might have come to the conclusion
>> that he is a conspiracy mongering lout.
>>
>>
>> Kshmendra
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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